2026 Crafting

So last time I posted some unfinished versions. Here are the finished versions!

This reindeer is done on some Pendleton wool of my mom's. I think it's from the 80s.

This is a darling Jessica Long design.

This is a lovely Emillie Ferris design!


This is a dragon I drew on my dorm wall freshman year. Knowing it would be painted over at the end of the year, I drew it in my book and then this year, I decided to embroider it. Then I made a square drawstring bag with it on it. I did a little quilting to frame the dragon. It's pretty subtle because it's white thread on white fabric, but I really like the effect. The exterior fabric is a shirt that my husband didn't want anymore.


This beautiful jellyfish was designed by the amazing Meg Zaniewski and available on Benzie here.

The incredible pear was designed by Brenda Sortwell. The design, which was in Stitch Magazine August/September 2023, was inspired by something I had never heard of- The Cheapside Hoard in England. It's an interesting read.

This adorable whale was designed by Marie Cardouat and Georgie Emery and in Love Embroidery magazine issue 12.


The following design (still unfinished- obvs!) is by embearoidery. She does advent stich-alongs, which this is one that I didn't do that way!!

Yumiko Higuchi has a monthly design that I'm thinking of doing for my friend, who gave me this book.

This design is by Vika Prokofjeva and in Love Embroidery magazine in issue 66. 

This is my crazy quilt that I started a long time ago. I think I started in late 2022 or early 2023.

This is the backing It's fabric that is all connected to my mom. The center is a deconstructed apron my mom was given when we left Japan in the 70s. I embroidered the messages and made it the backing because of a cool quilt I saw by Arbie Williams and Irene Bankhead (1993).


I've also been doing some cartonnage...  This one I did for my husband. The embroidery design by Ria Paramita in Love Embroidery.

 

As always I get kits from Claudia Squio of Colorway Arts.

 

 

 

 

 

New Crafting Posts

Oh, how busy I've been! Sadly not with crafting though!! Well, I've done some but other things are getting in the way!!

This project was for a friend of mine. Her family always gives Spode ceramics to each other, and my supply had dried up. My husband suggested embroidering a little banner and I thought that was brilliant!


In December I really enjoy doing a little daily Christmas-related embroidery, and this little EmBeaRoidery Advent wreath from 2023 fit the bill!

 

 Just a little stocking I made for my supervisor!

I really got into doing little samplers of stitches in my variegated floss! I got the idea from a magazine touting Marg Low Design's. I don't know if she has a pattern for this or not. At the time of writing this, you can see the idea in her banner at the top of the page.




I'm not sure anymore where this reindeer came from. If I had to hazard a guess it would be Chloe Redfern but she's really moved into almost exclusively doing felt- or so it seems to me.


I made this little Darning/Mending Options for the library because people are always asking me how to mend things in the makerspace there and I thought it would be easier to show them options. I didn't mount it so that people could see the hole on the backside as well.


I named the sewing machines and made them dust covers. One side is the makerspace logo and the other is "Makers gonna make"! 


There's a little free art "house" nearby and this cynoprint of Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer seemed a little unloved so I embellished him and returned him to the free art "house" and he was immediately snatched up and hopefully getting a lot of love!


I made a little teddy bear as a model for one of the children that comes into the makerspace and then I gifted it to my friend's one-year-old!


Loose Ends is making a quilt and asked for volunteers to embroider stars so this i my contribution to the cause!


I have a friend who loves crows (I mean- who doesn't! They're awesome!!!) and I thought this would make a cute little badge for her. I have seen this design floating around on the internet and have no idea who made it or if AI did. 

 

This is a darling Jessica Long design that I've loved since I first saw it. I only just got around to doing it though.

 

When my friend first showed me this Jessica Long pattern, I knew I wanted to do it. We have redwing blackbirds in this area and they are always by the cattails!! I decided I wanted to try my hand at doing it as a layered project and I had some organza. It's not as transparent as I would like but I think it's pretty good!



 

I love this Emillie Ferris snail!! It's adorable!!

End of the Year Wrap Up of Projects

 Oh, I've been so behind on updating this blog. Yikes!

 

This is a shirt I made. It says, "Everyone deserves due process." I don't use the word deserve lightly, but this is something I truly mean. 

 

This was something I made for my friend. It's something she embodies!

  

I have always loved Hawaiian quilts but I have never been able to make one. This is my attempt at having something akin to a Hawaiian quilt. It's box I made with an embroidery sampler version of a plumeria Hawaiian quilt pattern that Pacific Rim Quilt Company created and based on a box that Claudia Squio designed.  

 

This is a shirt I made for the No Kings Rally 

 

This is an alphabet banner I made for my friend's baby. It was a project in the the raised embroidery course by Adriana Torres that I took on Domestika.

 

This is a pair of jeans I embroidered with a design by Anna Alicia from Gathered Magazine. It was meant to be a banner for a child's bedroom but I loved it so much I decided to put on a pair of skinny jeans that planned to make a little less skinny!

  

This is Floe the Penguin designed by Carolyn Stanton. I made her for a friend.

 

This is a passion fruit flower (designed by Lucy Freeman in Love Magazine) pouch (designed by Amy Butler) with an A monogram designed by Mary Corbet.

 

 

This is Winter Birds by Jessica Long that I made into a hexagonal box. This is my very first attempt at making a hexagonal box! It's not as good as I want, but it's not bad!

 

 

This is a drawing my great grand aunt Minnie did that I then made into an embroidered piece.

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Back:  

 

This is a banner I made for the makerspace at the library. It is by Jessie Newton.

 

This is a heart I made in my Domestika course taught by Claire de Waard.

 

This is a napkin my mom made in the 80s that I used until it was threadbare that I then darned.

 

 This is a cricket my great grand aunt Minnie did that I then made into an embroidered piece.

 

This is a Halloween wreath designed by Sara Davey and in Love Embroidery.

 

This is an homage to my grandfather-in-law, Matsusaburo Hibi, and Marie Watt.

 

This is block Matsusaburo made and I emulated on wool because of the embroidery work of Marie Watt's. She does a lot with blankets, and there was an obvious connection to me between the US Army blanket in one of her pieces with the US Army blankets the Hibis were issued after being removed from their homes and imprisoned during World War II. My wool is some Pendleton wool my mom gave me, so she's in this homage too. Pendleton wool having importance in a lot of Native communities as well as being cherished by my mom. I chose the colors I did because of a painting Matsusaburo did of two mountain lions. It is essentially the mirror image of the block print below.

 

These are some baskets I made based on Suzy Quilts pattern.

 

This is a Thanksgiving banner I made. I took some drawings made by Draw So Cute and made this to embroider.

 

This is a pillow-to-be, called Tis the Season by Emma Congdon  in Love Embroidery and a sweater my friend saw that looks shockingly similar.

 

  

This is a stitch sampler I designed for my colleague to make.

 There are a couple more in the works but not yet presentable!